If Congress makes good on its promise to repeal parts of Obamacare, by 2019 an estimate 2.55 million Texans would no longer have coverage, resulting in greater financial pressure on local governments, healthcare providers and the insured, according to a new public health study.

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Saturday is the opening of the second part of the divided season on ducks in the South Zone, which includes all of the coastal and adjoining counties. It could not come at a better time as conditions have changed dramatically from two weeks ago when the first part of the season closed.

It looks like Santa will be taking a different route this year. The Santa Hustle race series, known for dressing its participants in Santa hats and fluffy white beards, has developed a new course for its Galveston race, scheduled for Dec. 18.

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Today, marks a century since the passing of Nicholas Joseph Clayton, the premier architect of historic Galveston. The island wouldn't be the place it is without his legacy of talent which continues to influence building design today.

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Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote that “The world will be saved by beauty,” which leads us to ask two rhetorical questions: first, does this mean that the world is lost and, second, is ugliness to blame for its condition? Rhetorical questions require no answer, but what we can see for ourselves is that in their multiple forms — artistic, personal and moral — beauty and ugliness contend for cultural supremacy. Today the general consensus among humanistic thinkers is that a “cult of ugliness” prevails.

What started as a 911 call reporting a domestic disturbance erupted in violence as two responding officers were struck by deadly gunfire, leaving a rural Georgia community grieving and on edge as police hunted the attacker.

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Author Laura Veasey Williams, a Dickinson native and resident, recently released her new children’s book tackling bullying entitled “The Leaves in the Breeze.” The book is an eye-catching and interesting story for youngsters making them aware that being bigger doesn’t give them the right to control, bully or disregard the rights of others.

Spenser Cat could not only talk, but he could also write. As proof of his credentials we are reminded of literary examples: Eeyore and Piglet talked to Christopher Robin and Wilbur and Charlotte had delightful conversations with Fern. Cats and crickets, dogs and mice, elephants and crabs have been recorded.

Retired Texas criminal court judge, author and founder of American Women Writers National Museum in Washington D.C., Janice Law has created her second whimsical novel for children, designed to introduce our government and how it works with the help of two delightful characters, Watch Dog and Capitol Cat.

Following high school graduation, the students — Jason, Wendy and Jessie — travel to the jungles of Yucatan to learn the demise of the Mayan civilization. They are granted permission to live at the campsite of college students from Texas Poly Institute led by university professors to study excavation sites.

The book is well researched and written. Its plot kept me up to the wee hours of the morning. Character development is so descriptive that it begs to have a sequel with the team called together on another mission.

“Ed. F. Kruse of Blue Bell Creameries,” by Dorothy McLeod MacInerney is a biography of the man running Blue Bell Creameries from 1951 through 1993. He took Blue Bell Creameries from an obscure country ice cream company to Texas’ most popular ice cream producer.

Adriana Trigiani had grown up listening to her grandmother and aunts tell about working in the blouse mills. They were great storytellers, never short on color and texture. Such accurate detail gives Trigiani’s writing a sense of nonfiction.

Galveston Historical Foundation’s Harbor City Ambition program will continue at 2 p.m. July 24 at the 1838 Menard House, 1605 33rd St., with a book club discussion on Andrew Torget’s "Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850."

He declares himself to be an atheist, so for him the God explanation has no credence. The book is about his disillusionment with materialistic explanations. He especially deals with the difference between brain and mind, the organ of thought and consciousness.